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teachers. Aberdeen has just that. For better learning environments, Aberdeen has many AP classes available to challenge and excite students into working harder. A hard-working staff creates opportunities for job and college preparation. With options like AVID, World Class Scholars, and the Running Start program, students can easily become more equipped for the struggles and stress of college. Programs like FFA,…

In today’s society there is much discussion in the realm of bullying, and with technology at our fingertips allowing us to post, share, and comment our lives away, cyber bullying is at the front and center of the conversation. However, with privacy settings and much awareness surrounding cyber bullying we are entering an anti-bullying era. This allows people to share and express what they believe in on all social media sites. Many hunters have taken advantage of this, posting their successful…

“My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know.” (Doyle 254). Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective character created by a Scottish author, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on May 22, 1859. Sherlock Holmes’s detective stories are some of the best detective stories ever written. His comics has always blown people's mind. However Sherlock Holmes is not the first fictional detective, the fame he reached after his literary birth dwarfed his fictional predecessors and…

Donald J. Raleigh’s Russia Sputnik Generation focused the Sputnik Generation also known as the Soviet Union Baby Boombers and the impact the Revolution of Perestroika had on it’s people, the country and the most of all the government. The Perestroika caused “its members to negotiate the bumpy transition from Soviet-style communism to a Russian-style market economy” (Raleigh 5). Raleigh felt that this generation were often disregarded when understanding the sociopolitical and historical context…

Of all of the memories floating around inside of my mind, among all of the silliness and seriousness, one particular scene from my middle school years burns very brightly: a clear, hot, lazy summer day. I approach an old friend who pauses the music video playing on his iPhone to hear me better. "What are you listening to?" I inquire, "The future," he replies, and sinks back into his trance-like state. I knew it was hip-hop that he was listening to, but for a 12-year-old kid who had been…

Monus was an avid sports fan so he formed the World Basketball League (WBL). He owned at least 60 percent of each of the ten teams of the WBL. This meant that he was responsible for each teams’ expenses and losses. Allegedly, each game averaged $13,000 in losses and…

I made the decision to devote my life and career to help better the industry of agriculture in the future. Thus, I didn’t spend my afternoons out on the field or on the stage in high school, I spent mine in barns, animal pens, and classrooms, as an avid member of both 4-H and FFA along with involvement in numerous other programs related to agriculture in the local community. Not trying to brag on myself, although scholarship applications like this are the place to do so, but the…

15 brutal deaths occur in a singular day in a Colorado high school. Dave Cullen’s book Columbine scrutinizes the Columbine High School massacre along with its investigative reports, rumors and murderers. On April 20, 1999, two Columbine High School seniors, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, fail to completely execute their meticulous plan to massacre. However, their open fire at their school rapidly horrifies their community and nation. The press arrives before the SWAT team penetrates the building…

expression so as to raise their concern and critique the society and its practices. A literary artist has the supreme liberty to create characters that represent the realities of the society. A work of art can leave a lasting mark in the minds of the avid readers or audience with the artist’s expression of sheer quintessence and aesthetic appeal that serves the purpose of being a perfect mesh of the commentary on the society and artistic expression. One can take into consideration the play, “A…

Slavery was a huge public issue during the Jacksonian era. Jackson was an avid slave owner, and saw nothing wrong with slave trade and ownership. Despite the fact that Clay was a slave owner, he supported gradual emancipation. Because this was such a controversial issue, both men did not act on this topic, and did their best…